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Historical! Must it be historical to catch your attention? Even though historicity, like notoriety, denotes nothing more than thatsomething has occurred.
Franz Grillparzer
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Franz Grillparzer
Age: 81 †
Born: 1791
Born: January 15
Died: 1872
Died: January 21
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Vienna
Austria
Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
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If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.
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You can make the best of it and be content, or you can complain, it makes no difference. What does it matter that human beings judge the things that exist?
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The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.
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The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
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My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.
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Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.
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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses.
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Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.
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Gratitude is a fickle thing, indeed. A person taking aim presses the weapon to his chest and cheek, but when he hits, he discardsit with indifference.
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I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love I have learned to lose and to resign myself.
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Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.
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To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
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Much as I honor the wisdom of the princess--there is something more dashing about a man.
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The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic.
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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.
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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.
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There is one privilege we'll never lose currently it's called nationality. It means that everyone was born somewhere, which is infact self-evident.
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.
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Is it true that one travels in order to know mankind? It is easier to get to know other people at home, but abroad one gets to know oneself.
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